English mania

Watch the video and  answer the questions

Creativity in schools

Do schools kill creativity?

• Watch this video Ken Robinson

Answer the following questions:

-Do you think Creativity is important to education? Why?

-Do you agree that Schools kill creativity?

-According to Ken Robinson, what is the problem with University degrees in the 21st century?

-How do you think schools can get in the way of a child's creativity? How can schools help foster creativity?

-What problems, if any, do you see with the education system in Spain?

-Which country or countries do you think have the best education system?  Why?

Don´t insist on English

1. Do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing that English has become a “universal language learned around the world? 

2. Do you think institutions should require that students speak English? Are these kinds of tests necessary? 

3. Is it valuable to have access to many different languages rather than just one? 

4. What role do you think English should play in higher education? Should there be a minimum level of spoken English required for admission? 

5. Why are you learning English? If you could further your career or studies without doing so, would you? 

6. Should everybody learn English? What would the consequences of this be? 

7. Is speaking more than one language always an advantage? 

8. If not English, is there another language that should be the globally accepted method of communication? 

9. What has your experience leaning English been like? 

10. Do you think that English education is responsible for cultural loss? If so, how would you solve this problem?

11. Do students who use English to study in foreign universities lose some of their own culture, or just gain parts of another? 

12. Is globalization a good or a bad thing, and what part does language play in this process? 

13. What would you do if did not spend so much time studying English?

Short Videos

Short 4 minute video on why 2 billion people around the world are trying to learn English

Questions regarding the video

a) Is English mania good or bad?
b) What other manias can  you enumerate? 

c) Some people say that demanding exams are the only method to make students learn. Do you agree?

d) Are there any negative effects to being obsessed with learning?

e) What do you think about the learning method discussed in the video?

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